Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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Book review: The Explosive Child
Dr. Greene’s book, “The Explosive Child,” is a must-read for parents who want to learn a healthy way to communicate with their oppositional (and typically developing) children. His approach is one that emphasizes the longterm health of the relationship and of the family.
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Authoritative homeschooling
One of the questions that new homeschoolers often ask is “how am I ever going to get my child to do any work?” Having had a child in school, they lament, “it was hard enough to get him to do homework!” Like everything in homeschooling, the answer depends on the family, their values, the choices…
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Are MOOCs going to destroy education as we know it?
MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, have lately been promoted as the new phenomenon that is going to destroy the university system. Why will people pay for a university education, the line of reasoning goes, if they can get the same thing online for free? And given that college grads are having so much trouble getting…
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When children are force-fed violent entertainment
Every family I know has had the experience: They were in a public place and their children were exposed to violent entertainment that they didn’t choose. If you’re at the shopping mall or a restaurant, you can vote with your feet. But when you’re in an airplane, there’s nowhere to go. One of my favorite…